Monkey comes to you weary of limb but happy of heart after a weekend of triumph and celebrations at the annual Hacks v Flaks clash on Saturday. Some of Fleet Street's finest would-be athletes gathered on the pitches and courts of the leafy Bank of England sports centre in Roehampton to thrash it out against their PR counterparts at the event, sponsored by Charles Stanley which raised just over £10,000 for the charity Arts Emergency.

After losing against the Flaks for the past two years, the Hacks football team managed to turn the tide with a 3-2 win. A result that came as a relief to Independent art correspondent and Hacks captain Nick Clark, who joked, with palpable relief, that he'd avoided a David Moyes moment. Desperate times call for desperate measure as KPMG PR Nahidur Rahman, who suffered a fractured rib, can attest: "I was lucky though, it should've been a penalty. I took it for the team, otherwise he would've scored." So confident were the Flaks that they would retain the football crown for the third year in a row, their captain left the gleaming trophy on his mantelpiece, resulting in the triumphant hacks celebrating with beer from the bar rather than a trophy full of champagne.

Over on the netball court, it was a resounding win for the fourth year in a row for the A-team Hacks with a score of 48-11. The (unclipped) nails were out in the B-team netball game, which after dramatic tumbles and twisted ankles, ended in the first ever win to the Flaks (11-8), helped by a dynamic shooting duo in the form of Smithfields' Rachel Kellet-Clarke and Emma Wills from Diffusion PR. But the drama didn't stop when the umpire called time. A Telegraph reporter got so involved in kneeling for the post-match team photo that she suffered a dislocated kneecap. Till next year, Flaks.